No, he wants to curtail it because he and Lammy are desperate to cut the backlog in the criminal courts without spending any more money and they, wrongly, think this will help

It’s nothing to do with abuse of power

There’s plenty to criticise the gov for without making things up that have no basis

Europe needs to look after itself, that’s what

How far does ‘softly softly’ go?

Putin bites off huge chunks of Ukraine in 2014 and we responded ‘softly’. All that did was encourage him to take more

The same with Trump

Allies of Denmark should start to station forces in and around Greenland

True - but appeasing Trump makes an invasion of Greenland more likely

Sometimes you have to say enough is enough.

Maduro was the Venezuelan’s problem to resolve. There was no threat to the US from Venezuela. Trump needs to be told he is in the wrong

Sliming up to him just makes him more dangerous

Somebody becomes PM at the end of the day though. Realistically, barring leadership changes, it’s going to be Starmer, Badenoch or Farage.

If you don’t vote for the candidate best placed to defeat the tory/reform candidate then you’re doing nothing but helping them

I don’t know about your constituency but in mine it flips regularly between red and blue, so if you want to avoid blue you vote red. Voting green or LD just means the tories/reform have to gain one less vote to win

Depriving Labour of a vote just to make a point helps nobody but the right wingers

Neither the Greens nor the LDs will get a majority at the next election - it just won’t happen. So whilst I agree that Labour have been atrocious in their tone and messaging and weak on policy (inexcusable really given their majority), they remain the best potential gov of the realistic options

General voting intention also hides the reality of tactical voting.

Reform could get 25% in every seat and might be enough to win under FPTP if other votes are split.

But if anti-reform votes coalesce around Labour/Lib Dem/Plaid/SNP candidates in those seats then probably not.

Come on now, that’s just not true

We’re all disappointed with Labour but claiming they want to destroy the NHS is just not correct

There’s plenty to legitimately complain about without making up stuff that’s clearly wrong

Imagine if you were recruiting for the role of PM, or even an MP

Putting together a basic job description would instantly rule out 90% of all politicians across the board, starting with good communication skills

Parties would be a lot better off if they picked people who had the basic competencies

Lol, BBC apologising to him for damaging his reputation whilst simultaneously publishing breaking news articles about his links to a paedophile sex trafficker

It just doesn’t make any sense anymore

Everyone knows he incited that riot - time to start pointing out that the emperor is in fact naked

Lol, if Starmer is “Trump’s poodle” what does that make Johnson and Farage?

Sounds like he was going shortly anyway, and if he goes as a result of right wing criticism then it puts pressure on them to avoid appointing someone more neutral and to continue the slide to the right

It’s honestly one of the most ingrained myths in our civilisation - the lie that hard work equates with success and money

If anything it’s the opposite. The hardest jobs are often the lowest paid

Musk didn’t get a dad who owned an emerald mine through working hard, he was just born into it

It’s worse than flags because in part the poppy symbolises remembrance of the horrors endured to oppose fascism, and to never let it happen again

Now it is used as a symbol by British fascists

The message of ‘war is bad’ has also been corrupted into ‘support our troops’ which is entirely different

It also highlights the current extreme polarisation of opinion

The right view Starmer as a dangerous out of control woke socialist, whereas the left view him as a repressive anti-minority right wing red Tory

The language and tone is dialled up so far it’s hard to see the reality underneath

I don’t understand how we can be both

a) living in a cost of living crisis with ordinary people struggling to buy the basics, and;

b) it be reasonable to raise taxes on ordinary people

Either a) is overblown and everyone is richer than they think, or there is plenty of wealth but only at the top

Labelling Farage as charismatic is the same as labelling Boris Johnson as charismatic - I just don’t get it.

Both are very boring and are incredibly transparent in their naked self-interest.

Both present carefully curated personas which the media lap up - that is not the same as being charismatic